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Be Beary Careful!

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We saw this very healthy-looking but groggy guy while stopping for a break on the Cassiar Highway.

We were careful and stayed in our vehicle but we did enjoy observing him. This yearling was eating a plant that he seemed to like a lot but also appeared to be very sleepy. This far north (60° north latitude) the bears haven’t been awake from their winter slumber for very long.

Happy Sunday.

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Looking Back … at Bears

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Once more, here is a “looking back” post containing pictures from years ago; these photos aren’t necessarily great but are important to me. There are three earlier posts in this series; you can find them here if you’re interested:

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/01/26/looking-back/

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/02/03/looking-back-again/

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/02/10/looking-back-once-more/

In the last post, I left off in 2017 with my arrival in the Northwest Territories. I would work there for the next six years and eight months, concluding with my retirement in October, 2023.

This time, I’m looking back at some of the bear photographs I was able to take during my NWT time; one of them is an all-time favourite.

We spotted this tired-looking spring bear, probably a yearling, while returning from a hike in April, 2018. We were safely in our truck when we saw him.
This bear was very determinedly getting through the deep snow. Did he have a very important date to keep? This may look like a winter picture, but I actually took this one in late May, 2022, while on my way to a conference. In NWT, it can snow at any time between mid-August and mid-June.
This bear was a very big guy and still looking sleepy in early May, 2021.
This young bear from June, 2021, was very curious about us and looked at us just as much as we looked at him; it’s one of my all-time favourite photos. He was probably wondering if we had something more interesting to eat than plain salad!

Happy Monday.

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Visiting the City

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I saw this deer across the street as I was leaving home.

He seemed to have found some yummy leaves and was intent on chowing down. Normally I cross the road to where the deer is standing, but I didn’t want to bother him.

With the drought and fires this season, the animals have had a tough time of it and more and more are entering urban areas to find food. This includes an uptick in the number of bears coming into people’s yards, as shown in the recent photos below from Quesnel, British Columbia; the entire article is here.

Photo by Julie Dorge Photography

This is a grizzly bear. Black bears are more commonly found in urban areas but grizzlies are different. They dislike and avoid humans, so this tells me that they are being driven by hunger.

Photo by Julie Dorge Photography

This underweight grizzly is pulling crabapples from a tree in a residential yard. Given the difficult summer they’ve had, we will likely begin to see more of them trying to fatten up for hibernation and will need to be cautious.

Happy Wednesday.

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SPAWNING TIME

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It’s that time of year again,spawning time. This year we’ve had poor rain levels and so that in turn makes the streams low. When the streams are low,…

SPAWNING TIME

An amazing picture of a bear capturing some dinner from Wayne at Tofino Photography. Wayne is concerned about our low water levels and the effect this will have on the salmons’ ability to swim upstream to spawn. Please click on the link above to read more.